Name Ernest John BIRCH   
Rank/Number Lance Corporal  / 9414
Regiment/Unit East Surrey Regiment / 9th Battalion
Enlisted Colchester, Essex 
Age/Date of death 22 / 06 Nov 1918 
How died/Theatre of war Killed in action / France & Flanders
Residence at death  
Cemetery Cross Roads Cemetery, Fontaine-au-Bois, Nord, France 
Grave Reference II.C.6 
Location of memorial Chesham 
Date/Place of birth c1896 / Chesham
Date/Place of baptism  
Occupation of Casualty painter 
Parents/Occupation George & Elizabeth Birch / bricklayer
Parents' Address 297 Hivings Hill, Chesham 
Wife  
Wife's Address  
Notes brother of William Birch